I shock myself. But you are right. I am responsible here. I know what I should have done. I knew it then, My heart cried out for this boy in his misery—a misery imposed by my husband, And I to help him as one human being to another—and. At the last moment, I sent him away—sent him Brit, You mean you managed to overcome your exage gerated sense of pity. No, not just pity.
My heart in its own Joneliness— Yes, I've been lonely here, miserably lonely —and my heart in i iness cried out for this boy— cried out for the comfort he could give me too.
You don't know what you're saying. But I was a good woman. Good in what sense of the word? Good to whom—and for whom? I'm leaving you. You know what it means. I wouldn't worry too much about it. And you're doing this—all because of this—this fairy? After a moment. This boy, Bill—this boy is more of a man than you are. Bit, Sure— Ask Laura. Because it was distasteful for him. Because for him there has to be love.
Yes, sure. Manliness is not all swagger and swearing and imbing. Ellie's a woman. Ask Ellie. What do you know about a man? Married first to that boy—again, a poor pitiable boy—You want to mother a boy, not love a man. That's why you never really loved me.
Because I was not a boy you could mother. You're quite wrong about my not loving you. I did love you— But not just for your outward show of ess, but because you needed me. Because I loved you. Why else? Does a would- headmaster have to be married? That's part of being a master. Other masters and their wives do not take two boys with them whenever they go away on vacations or week-ends. They are boys without privileges.
Laura, And T became a wife without privileges, Br. You became a wife— He stops. You did not become a wife. That's our definition of manhood? I have to hope that this same story would be treated a little differently by a modern playwright.
Not taking the assumption that he is or isn't gay, but merely that you should let who you are be defined by what society says it is. Morgan Kail-Ackerman. For a play written in the 50s, it is so progressive about feminism, homosexuality, and love.
Amazing amazing amazing play! Carmen Quest. Even the supposedly tough Bill cannot bring himself to be vulnerable with his own wife because he feels self-conscious about it.
I disagree. The ending is perhaps the most controversial moment of the play. Someone who reminds her of her first husband, John, who also felt pressured to prove his manliness in a stereotypical, exaggerated way. Of course, whether this conduct towards an underage student is ethical or not is debatable, and it adds another layer of complexity to the story.
We could all use its message of tolerance. Connie G. Written in , this play is about Tom Lee, an effeminate young man of eighteen at a New England boarding school. He is being bullied by the other boys, and his sexual orientation is being questioned after skinny dipping with a male teacher at the school. Laura, the wife of his housemaster, is very sensitive to Tom's problems. Her husband thinks she should back off and offer no more support than "tea and sympathy.
Laura gets so involved that she crosses into dangerous territory for a faculty wife. A crisis erupts when Tom visits a town prostitute to prove his manhood.
Tom's only consolation is his friendship with Laura Reynolds, the housemaster's wife. Laura's character is in a state of emotional turmoil. She understands Tom and wants to help him. She is desperate to prove that a sensitive man can be heterosexual.
She nurses the pain of a marriage devoid of love. She beds the adolescent to protect him from torture. Laura's pity could be as derogatory as the homophobia of the men.
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